[Boot Sequence on Abit BH6]
IDE Primary Master 3.2G HD
IDE Primary Slave CD-ROM
IDE Secondary Master 7.6 HD
Abit BH6 Boot Sequence options:
A,C,SCSI
C,A,SCSI
C,CD-ROM,A
CD-ROM,C,A
D,A,SCSI (implies at least 2 HDD installed) *my interpretation*
E,A,SCSI ( " 3 )
F,A,SCSI ( " 4 )
SCSI,A,C
A,SCSI,C
LS/ZIP,C
Yes, I know ZP went thru a bunch of this a while back. I think his stuff all had SCSI implications. I've avoided SCSI. (So far.) So I think this is same subject, different twist.
When choosing one of the "C" boot variants, the primary active partition of the 3.2G HD on primary master comes up as "C", the primary active partition of the 7.6G comes up as "D", the extended partition of the 3.2G comes up as "E", followed by F G H extended partitions of the 7.6G HD.
And I think when using the "D,A,SCSI" option, the primary active partition of the 7.6G comes up as "C", the primary active partition of the 3.2G comes up as "D", E=ext. of 3.2g, F,G,H=ext. of 7.6G.
Installing an OS on the primary active of the 3.2G is no big deal. I've done it several times. Will do it some more. <g>
But, to install on OS on the primary active of the 7.6G? I think I have to switch the primary and secondary IDE ribbons to do so. The "D,A,SCSI" option won't look past the D drive to boot off off the floppy A drive. (SCSI not installed here.) And an option combining CDROM and D does not occur. I don't have a problem swapping the IDE ribbons, but surprised enough to throw it up here for discussion. Planning to swap them back, once an OS is installed on the primary active partition of the 7.6G drive. Then, I think, the 7.6G primary active OS will be selectable via the BIOS boot sequence option D,A,SCSI.
I am also inferring that the D E F referenced in the boot sequence options list more accurately refer to IDE drives 2, 3, and 4 and have little to do with logical drives. Of course if I had enabled FAT32, the differnce wouldn't matter and 2 would equal D and 3=E and 4=F. So this probably is not nearly as confusing either with small HDs or with the fat32 (is that the same as NTFS?).
Feedback appreciated.
Thanks, Paul
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